In fact, the facility will be so efficient – by design – when it comes online in 2015, that Jennifer Ogle, can honestly lure first-wave recruits to the project by offering no nights or weekends.

“One shift will handle four planes per month, and that’s working five days a week,” Ogle, human resources director for what is now known as Airbus Final Assembly Line USA, said Tuesday morning during the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce’s Women’s Roundtable.

Specifically, once the Mobile Final Assembly Line is humming along, Ogle said that single shift will be able to assemble an aircraft every five days. Add the testing, painting and delivery, and an A320 family plane can be delivered – start to finish – in two weeks flat, she said.

In addition, Ogle said even after the facility increases capacity within three to five years, the Mobile assembly line is designed to do so using less than two shifts “if we use all the efficiencies in place.”

Of course, many of the questions following Ogle’s project update centered around hiring, and she explained that while only “a few hundred” of the total 1,000 jobs associated with the final assembly line will be blue-collar manufacturing positions, the company has a vested interest in making as many of those hires locally as possible because of the extensive pre-employment training involved.

“Our plan is to recruit 100 percent – if possible – within a 30-mile radius (of Mobile),” she said, indicating Airbus’ neighbor at Brookley, the Alabama Aviation Center, has already witnessed a nearly 40 percent enrollment increase in programs that would directly train the types of employees the planemaker needs.

“These people graduate with an (airframe and powerplant) license. We need people with mechanical and electrical capabilities to do installation…We think we can find all the people we need right around here, and we’re committed to that,” Ogle said.

In addition, Ogle said all hiring for the Mobile facility to date has heavily favored local talent, with about half – herself included – coming from within that 30-mile radius and the other half coming from within a 100- to 300-mile radius.

And while Airbus will use only about one-quarter of the available land at Brookley for the A320 final assembly line, Ogle said there are no plans at this time to expand the facility.

“There was a rumor about three months ago that we were going to do military planes in Mobile, but there’s no truth to that. What is true is that if we need the acreage for an expansion, we have the option to purchase it,” she said.